quattro Digest, Vol 28, Issue 28

[David Kase]

There was a similar story a couple years where a Wal-Mart (or Sam's 
Club) employee test drove a pick-up and proceeded to wreck it.  Their 
response?
"Too bad, good luck with that...we are not paying a dime..."

Mike Arman wrote:

>>Subject: Re: Oil Change Instructions
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>>You said:  "FYI. Here is how to change your oil."
>> OIL CHANGE INSTRUCTIONS FOR WOMEN:
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>>       1) Pull  up to Wal Mart 
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>>Missing is : 4) 5 minutes after paying the bill and leaving the parking lot, 
>>notice the oil pressure warning light is on.  Have the car towed to another 
>>shop and spend another $100-150 having the stripped oil drain plug hole 
>>repaired,  the cheap-*ss oil filter replaced, and the proper weight oil 
>>installed.  If it's a stamped steel oil pan, figure in the parts and labor 
>>to replace the oil pan itself.
>>5) Try to get Wal-Mart to pay for the damage they caused.
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>Young lady who lives next to a condo we sold last year had this happen
>to her, and she WORKS at that Wal Mart! She had a little Toyota
>something-or-other, had the oil changed at work, drain plug was cross
>threaded and when it was tough to install, out came the air gun, and by
>gosh we got it tight now, Bubba! Except all the oil leaked out and the
>engine blew . . .
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>After eight months of increasingly acrimonious correspondence, Wal
>Mart's final offer was to buy her a junkyard engine and let her pay to
>have it installed - by them!
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>Despite my howls of protest, and against my wife's legal advice, that's
>exactly what she opted to do - so they bought a junkyard engine and
>charged her to install it. It lasted about three months, and then that
>one blew up, too, and she went and bought another car.
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>Believe it or not, she still works at the same Wal Mart!
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>Do not EVER let monkey lads touch your Audi - EVER!!!!
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>Best Regards,
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>Mike Arman
>90 V8Q
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>(DOT required dash placard: "Warning! This vehicle affects space and
>time in its immediate vicinity!")
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